Director Of Infrastructure

Title and Summary

Director Of Infrastructure

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect
and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making
transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships
and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments,
and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our
company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

Dynamic Yield by Mastercard is on the lookout for a Director Of Infrastructure, one who lives and breathes DevOps & security principles and methodologies, with a developer and business objective mindset.

Role

• Lead, support, and mentor a group of four teams: DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, and Infra. Currently overseeing 15 engineers, directly managing the team leads of the DevOps and DevSecOps teams, and providing both technical guidance and management leadership
• Build a new Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team that will be in charge of the health of the production environment. This team will be a central part of our production operations strategy, working hand in hand with our Operations team, DevOps, and R&D.
• Build an R&D infrastructure team to develop and support applicative infrastructure components such as databases, web servers, logging mechanisms, and any other low-level infrastructure required by the R&D team to achieve their objectives.
• Plan the team's roadmap to meet our business objective
• Work closely with tech leads to define, design and implement infrastructure needs
• Responsible for all DevOps and security areas: infrastructure and cloud environments, CI/CD, observability, SAST, SCA, SSDLC and Cloud Security
• Lead a developer/development experience culture - make developers more efficient and productive by addressing their pain points, ensuring the reusability of tools among all development teams, maintaining consistent standards for testing and monitoring, and continuously improving developer tools.
• Accountable for the architecture and technical leadership of the complete DevOps infrastructure and stack
• Implement and maintain security best practices and standards, leading the security issue remediation process as part of the integration with Mastercard
• Oversee DevOps tasks, perform code reviews and provide development assistance
• Optimize operation efforts and adopt new tools
• Design, implement, and continually improve everything the team does to accelerate performance and efficiency
• Serve as an escalation point for the team and other stakeholders within the organization
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting production services
• Recruit new candidates for the team and retain talents

All About You

• 2+ years of leadership experience managing multiple teams in a mid-sized or larger company with over 100+ R&D employees
• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps Engineer or as a Software Developer, with proven expertise in cloud infrastructure and systems at scale.
• Proven experience with container technology and familiarity with container orchestration and toolchain, such as Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Docker, etc.
• Experience in running and maintaining large-scale production systems over AWS stack
• In-depth knowledge of cloud security best practices
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code toolchains and frameworks, such as Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
• Experience with CI/CD tools, such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins
• Experience in scripting and programming, such as Python, Bash, Go, Groovy
• Experience with observability tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch and with a strong analysis skills
• Familiarity with the software development life cycle and secure coding practices to safeguard the integrity and security of our products
• Strong communications skills
• Multi-tasker and a team player who takes ownership and knows how to prioritize efficiently

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.